CRNA General Anesthesia Supervision 
The Anesthesia Consultant
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
In a professional labor market such as anesthesia providers, the supply of qualified clinicians cannot increase fast enough to ease the pressures resulting from a markedly increasing demand. Specific trends have led to the anesthesia workforce supply–demand relationship. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The most invasive type of airway tube used in anesthesia is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube. At the onset of general anesthesia anesthesiologists place an ET tube through the mouth, past the larynx (voice box), and into the trachea (windpipe). Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?
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The Anesthesia Consultant
APRIL 25, 2021
When you enter a hospital or surgery center for a surgery and an anesthesia professional approaches you prior to your surgery, that professional could be a physician anesthesiologist, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, or an Anesthesia Assistant (AA). Surgeons have no incentive to replace physician anesthesiologists with CRNAs.
The Anesthesia Consultant
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
In this model, an MD anesthesiologist supervises up to four CRNAs who work in up to four different operating rooms simultaneously. All the responsibility in the ACT model resides with the supervising MD anesthesiologist. Are CRNAs and anesthesiologists equals? Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?
The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 12, 2021
In anesthesia care team models, in which a Certified Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) is physically present in the operating room while being supervised by an attending physician anesthesiologist, the MD anesthesiologist can be summoned to return to the operating room in seconds if a problem arises.
The Anesthesia Consultant
JUNE 26, 2022
There is no fork in the career path that makes a busy Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) automatically inferior to a medical doctor anesthesiologist in hands-on skills. CRNAs can now administer anesthesia independent of any physician anesthesiologist supervision in the majority of the United States.
The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
There are multiple different models of anesthesia care. In an anesthesia care team, a physician anesthesiologist supervises up to four operating rooms and each operating room is staffed with a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Sound scary?
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